Improvement in box-opener



nittd (,etatr vHENRY C. VAN GIESON, OF PATTERSON, NEW JERSEY.

Leners Patent N 95,957, maa comte-19,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'BOX-OPENER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saune.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. VAN Grnsox, of Paterson, Passaic county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new Improvement in Box-Openers; and I do hereby declare that the followingjs a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby others skilled in the art may make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, tbri'ning part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates to a new and useful improve ment in an instrumentfor opening wooden boxes, as, for instance, dry-goods boxes; and consists in hinging a lever to a corner or angle-piece, and combining the same, as hereinafter more fully described.

The accompanying drawing represents the article 4as when in use, it heilig a side view, with a box shown iu dotted lines.

A is the lever, on which there is a flat chisel-end, B.

O is the corner or angle-piece, which is designed to be of the same width as the part B, and to tit," or nearly Iittl1e corner of the box.

This angle-piece is hinged to the lever or the chisel- .end B, as seen in the drawing, at I).

The part E of the angle-piece Ccloses up on to B, so that the two form a double chisel-edge, which, in opening the box, is driven under the cover until the part E strikes the b ox. Then, by bearing down on the lever, the cover is raised, as s'een in the drawing.

The parts B E are grooved and tongned, as s cen at (1, for preventing injury to the hinge D, when the double chisell is driven in, as before stated, butl thehinge may be so constructed as to render this device unnecessary.

The end B of the lever may be split, so to form a claw, it' desired.v

By this lnethod of constructingr the opener, the cover of a box may be removed without nlarring the box, and without split-ting the covers. A

Once driving in' of the opener at the corner of the box is suiiicient. The opener can be inserted and carried around the box, without driving, after the firstcorner is raised, and the edge of the box will not be bruised, while the labor is great-ly lessened.

Having thus described myinvention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A box-opener, provided with an angle-iron, E,

`to forni a rigid fnlcrlun against the box itself, in tho manner described.

2. A box-opener, provided with a recess, Q, and corresponding projection on the respective jaws, as and for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by nie, this 26th day of July. 1865i.

' HENRY C. VAN GIESON.

Witnesses:

GEo.'W. MABEE, WM. A. MORGAN. 

